Oscars: 'CitizenFour' on HBO; 'Last Days in Vietnam' on PBS

If you want to see an Oscar-nominated documentary, you can look to television.

The Oscars will be presented Feb. 22 on ABC.

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At 9 p.m. Feb. 23, HBO will present "CitizenFour," the favorite to win the prize. Laura Poitras directed the film, which documents how she and journalist Glenn Greenwald told the story of Edward Snowden, who leaked classified documents about the National Security Agency's mass surveillance of Americans.

"Last Days in Vietnam," a documentary nominee directed by Rory Kennedy, will air at 9 p.m. April 28 on PBS' "American Experience." It is the ninth Oscar nomination for the series.

The other nominees for best documentary are "Finding Vivian Maier," "The Salt of the Earth" from Wim Wenders and "Virunga."

You can catch "Virunga," from executive producer Leonardo DiCaprio, on Neflix. It's part nature documentary (about Virunga National Park's endangered mountain gorillas), part investigative journalism and part thriller.

I'll pass along more information about how to see the documentaries when I get it.